BYSSI is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. BYSSI is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept BYSSI?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful BYSSI is to know. It scores 10 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for BYSSI
No single letter turns BYSSI into another word.
How BYSSI scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in BYSSI, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| b | 1 | 2 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| s | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does BYSSI mean in Scrabble?
noun
zoology
The tough, silky filaments by which mussels and certain other bivalves attach themselves to rocks or surfaces.
Byssi are the plural of byssus, threads that a mussel spins from a gland in its foot and anchors to a rock, a pier piling or even another shell. Each thread hardens on contact with seawater, and together many byssi hold the animal firmly against waves and currents that would otherwise sweep it away. Byssus once also named a fine ancient fabric woven from similar fibres, but the biological sense is the one that survives in modern zoology.
How BYSSI is used
Technical; used in zoology when describing several mussels or several threads at once.
- The mussels had spun new byssi overnight after the storm.
- Researchers studied how byssi resist the pull of waves.
- Divers found the rock covered with old, dry byssi.
- Each mussel replaces its byssi as the old threads wear out.
- The tank's glass was soon dotted with fresh byssi.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of BYSSI and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with BYSSI
3 longer words begin with BYSSI.
Shorter words from the letters in BYSSI
Common questions about BYSSI
- Is BYSSI valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts BYSSI, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is BYSSI worth?
- BYSSI is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does BYSSI mean?
- The tough, silky filaments by which mussels and certain other bivalves attach themselves to rocks or surfaces.
- What letters can be added to BYSSI?
- No single letter can be added to BYSSI to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of BYSSI:
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